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.AFUNITED STATES-PA ENT orrlce GEORGE E. ROWE; or wRsr HARTFORD,comvnc'rrcur, ASSIGNOR ro HARgJRQ -D- EMPIRE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD,(.'1O1\l1\'|'IElC'LICU'JI, A COQPORATION OF DELAWARE I GLASSWARETRANSFER DEVICE "Application filed October 15, 1929. Serial No. 399,757;

. This invention relates to a conveyor for articles of glassware and ismore particularly designed to turn about their axes non-circulararticles of glassware from one predetermined position to another, whiletransferring them from one location to another.-

It often happens-that non-circular articles of glassware are deliveredby a take-out to .a'

conveyor in such a manner that when picked up by the lehr stacker, theyare not in a proper position to satisfactorily be placed in the lehr,either because they take up too much room' or else they cool improperlybecause their corners are too closely adjacent.

An object of this invention is to provide means for receiving articlesof glassware from a take-out in whatever position they.

happen to come, assuming that for a given set-up of a mold table thearticles will always go be delivered by the take-out in the sameposition, and turn the articles of glassware to Whatever predeterminedposition is the satisfactory one for placing them in the lehr.

The invention comprises broadly an endless 25. conveyor belt, bearing aseries of pivotally mounted plates with ware receiving'members attachedthereto and arms on the plates, Which arms contact with adjustablemembers fixed adjacent the conveyor, which turn the 3 ware receivingmembers or-cups first to one position for receiving the ware and toanother position for delivering it.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View showing the transfer device andthe relatioxiship of the various parts thereof to a take-out mechanism;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view-of a plate, and a receptacle mounted thereon,showing the pivotal connection between the plate and the Fig. 3 is aplan view of one'section of the conveyor, showing the adjustableabutment member in a position different from that shown in Fig. l; and aFig. 4 is a sectional view of the abutment member showing the mountingof the adjustable screw therein.

A, take-out mechanism generally designated as 10 is shown delivering a.bottle 11 from a mold 12 to a cup 13. 1 A plurality of .a plate 14- ythrough slots 16 therein. The bolts screwinto the plate 14. The plate 14as clearly shown in Fig. 2 is pivotally mounted as by a bolt 16a toa'plate 17 on the conveyor 18.

The plate 14 carries arms 14a and 146 which are sufiiciently long tocontact with abutment members hereinafter described. The conveyor may beof any form well known to the art and driven, preferably intermittently,by any means (not shown). Attached to the framework 19 of the conveyorsupporting structure are two arms 20 and 21 which are alike except fortheir'location. One isplaced upon each side of the take-out mechanismand on opposite sides of the conveyor. As shown in Fig. 4, in the arms20 and 21 are slots 22 which extend almost thelength of the arm.Adjustably mounted in the slot 22 is an abutmentmember 23 through whicha bolt 24 passes and which is held in a predetermined position in theslot by washers 25 and a nut 26. Obviously the bolt may be moved in thisslot as found desirable.

Since the cups 13 are removable, varied shapes thereof may be providedin accordance with the different shapes of the ware to be placedthereon. As illustrated, they are rectangular. v v In operation theabutment member 23 is so positioned that when the arm 14a contactstherewith, it will turn the plate 14 so that the cup mounted'thereon'will be in a pOsi- 7,

tion to receive in its depressed portion the article of glassware fromthe take-out. As the cup passes the take-out the article of glassware isplaced therein by the take-out in anypreferred manner known to the art,and as the conveyor moves along its path, the arm 14?) contacts with aroller 23 on the arm 21. The roller on the arm 21 is so positioned thatit will turn the plate 14 to whatever position is most desirable for thestacker to pick up the bottle. It is obvious that through the severaladjustmentsthe bottle may be received in any desired position and may beturned to any other1 selected position during. the conveyor trave.-

It will be understood that the hereinbefore described embodiment of myinvention is 1' for illustrative purposes only and various changes maybe made in the construction of the apparatus and in the arrangement ofthe parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventlonas defined in the appended claims.

i Icclaim as my invention:

1. A glassware transfer device adapted to recelve non-clrcular artlclesof glassware in one position and turn said articles of glassmountedthereon,

ware receiving cup adjustably mounted on ware around a vertical axis toa predetermined position while transferriarg them from one location toanother, comprising a conveyor, a frame therefor, plates pivotally armson the plates, a glassthe plates, an abutment member located on theconveyor frame and adapted to contact with the arms of the platesmounted on the conveyor to turn said platesto one position for receivingnon circular articles of glass ware in one positionand a similarabutment member ,located on the conveyor framework for turning thearticles of glassware to another position for delivering them) 2. Aglassware transfer device adapted to receive non-circular articles ofglassware in one position and turn said articles of glassware around avertical axis to a predeteran abutment member located to contact withminedposition while transferring them from one location to another,comprising a cona frame therefor, plates pivotally veyor, mountedthereon, arms on said plates, glassware recelvlng cups mounted on saidplates,

said arms and to turn said plates to one pos1- tion for receiving saidarticles of glass, and a second abutment member located to contactwithsaid arms and turn said articles of glassware to another positionfor deliver- 7 ing them.

Signed at Hartford, Connecticut this 11th day of October, 1929.

GEORGE E. ROWE.

